Gore Vidal and Harvard: Inside Higher Ed., 10/19

Gore Vidal, who died in July, was one of our greatest novelists and essayists – and yet he never went to college. In a 2007 interview I asked him why not.

“I graduated from [Phillips] Exeter,” he explained, “and I was aimed at going to Harvard. Instead I enlisted in [the Navy] in 1943. When I got out, in ’46, I thought, ‘I’ve spent all my life in institutions that I loathe, including my service in the [Navy] of the United States.’ I thought, ‘Shall I go for another four years?’ . . . … continued at Inside Higher Ed., HERE.

Cold War Memory Q&A: CBSnews.com, 10/18

Jeff Glor:  What inspired you to write the book?
Jon Wiener:  I took the tour of the Nevada Test Site and wrote about it for the “Politics of Travel” issue of The Nation magazine. . . .
. . . continued at CBSnews.com HERE

UCLA History Dept.: Dec. 3

“How We Forgot the Cold War: A Historical Journey across America.”  Talk, with comment by Robin Kelley.
UCLA Department of History, Bunche Hall 6th floor conference room. Monday Dec. 3, 3-5pm.  Sponsored by the Center for Social Theory and Comparative History;  Co-sponsored with US History Colloquium.